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TIL a filmmaker, in order to expose “the general absurdity of what we all believe,” became a fake spiritual guru and ended up with a real group of followers who called him “the living embodiment of the divine.”

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PYNLe TIL that after surfacing under ice in the Arctic, the submarine USS Connecticut was attacked by a Polar Bear who proceeded to chew on the ship's rudder before 'disengaging.'
5YRkQ TIL Robert Pattinson was expelled from school when he was 12 for shoplifting explicit magazines and selling them later to his male classmates
D1OMr TIL that there's a type of snake (the sharp tailed snake) that eats slugs
p0kO TIL that a dogs loose skin can allow it to shake 70% of the water off their fur in four seconds.
wLnZ7 TIL that Monty Python sued ABC over their censorship of season 4 of their show. ABC had cut punchlines and entire characters. The judge and jury watched two versions of a season 4 episode; a BBC one they laughed at, and an edited ABC one which no one laughed at. The judge ruled in ABC’s favour.